Description
Scarce Belle Époque period French poster by Jules Cheret from the famous French series of posters, Les Maîtres de l’Affiche.
Pan was a satirical journal named after the mischievous god of revelry and was also the patron saint of wine. This magazine was founded in Liverpool in 1865. There were at least a dozen others of the same name at different periods in Berlin, London, Paris, Milan, Lyon, Buenos Aires, Stockholm, etc.
In 1886 Ernest Maindron, one of the earliest champions of poster art and the curator of an exhibition on the history of advertising in 1889, observed that: ‘For the last twenty years, artistic posters have taken a prominent place on the walls of Paris. Our best designers have used their crayons. The most sympathetic among them, M. Jules Chéret, lending to them a magnificence of unparalleled talent, has put them in fashion’. (P. D. Cate, Prints Abound – Paris in the 1890’s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, p. 29.)
From Chaix, Les Maîtres de l’Affiche. Paris
References:
Rennert, J. Master of the Posters 1896 – 1900. New York 1977 VIII, 1.
Dover publications, The Complete “Masters of the Poster. 2016 poster 11.
